Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Samira Saraya | 20 minutes

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Based on events in Samira’s life, the film follows the complex relationship of YASMINE (37), an openly lesbian Israeli Arab living in Tel Aviv, and her young lover, OR (26), an intelligence officer in the Israeli army. Their liaison is being shadowed by the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.

As part of routine protocol of her army intelligence unit, Or is summoned for a background check and a polygraph test. She admits to Yasmine that at the start of their relationship she underwent a similar investigation, in which she told the army about Yasmine and her family. At the time, she lied to the army that they had briefly dated but that the relationship had ended.

Yasmine’s sister, JAHAN(35) arrives for dinner. She just came through the humiliating checkpoints of the Israeli Army and is stunned to discover that Yasmine’s girlfriend is part of the occupying forces. The situation quickly escalates.

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